Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa
Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa

How many spectacles I've missed:
the curtain rising without me,
and falling too. How many friends
I never had the chance to meet.

Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison

If the following day he chance to find
A new repast, or an untasted spring,
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz

Allah says [in the Koran]: "If they repent before you overcome them, you should know that Allah is forgiving and merciful."… we are opening the door of forgiveness[…] and acceptance of Islamic law, to all who have strayed and committed a crime in the name of religion… Everyone who belongs to this group that has wronged itself who has not yet been apprehended in terrorist operations – we

offer them a chance to return to Allah… Anyone who accepts this and surrenders of his own free will… will be treated according to the law of Allah.

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

I knew — because of my race, and my class, and rural geography … all these forces that crush all sorts of American kids, crush their hopes and dreams — I knew I had no chance unless I left and went to a better school.

Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch
Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch

I will take the liberty of saying that we missed the chance we had in the 1990s. The question was posed: what kind of country should we have? A strong country, or a worthy one where people can live decently? We chose the former – a strong country. Once again we are living in an era of power. Russians are fighting Ukrainians. Their brothers. My father is Belarusian, my mother, Ukrainian. That's

the way it is for many people. Russian planes are bombing Syria … A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear. The era has turned around and headed back in time. The time we live in now is second-hand … Sometimes I am not sure that I've finished writing the history of the "Red" man.

Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky

Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation

essential to any revolution.

Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment,

health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned
Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned

To give every child the chance to be educated is a gift of promise. A gift of wonderment. A gift that opens up possibilities that can transform lives and develop thinkers, leaders, and creators of great art.